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By the way, that's a genuine badminton fan who commented at the bottom of that article, not an X-rated spammer. The word 'shuttlecock' normally appears transliterated in its full form on shuttle tubes and I believe that people in Korea always used to use either the word gong, meaning 'ball' or the English-style abbreviation 'shuttle'. Abbreviating with the other half of the compound is a rather unfortunate, recent convention, which is being used by some brand names as well.